Strip-serving device



F. S. ANABLE.

STRIP SERVING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED 05c. 19. 1914.

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FREDERICK S. ANAIBLE, F BBOOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO NATIOId'AL BINDING MACHINE COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

STRIP-SERVING DEVICE.

Original application filed August 19, 1908, Serial No. 449,320. Divided and this application filed December 19, 1914. Serial No. 878,151.

To all whom it ma y concern Be it known that I, FREDERICK S. ANABLE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brookline, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, (whose postottice address is 53 State street, Boston, Massachusetts) have invented an Improvement in Strip-Serving Devices, (Case A,) of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to devices or apparatus for supplying strips of-paper or the like employed for wrapping or binding packages or for use as labels of any desired length, and has particular reference to that type of apparatus employing a support for a coil of paper strip previously gummed and thendried, and having provisions for moistenmg the gum upon the strip as the latter is drawn from its coil. It is apparent that an ungummed strip of paper or the like may be employed, in which case the moistening device for the strip suitably positioned with respect thereto would contain an adhesive instead of water.

This application is a division of my copending application Serial No. 449,320, filed .-\ugust 19, 1908.

In order that the principle of the invention may be clearly understood, I have disclosed a single embodiment thereof in the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of a strip serving device embodying one form of my invention; Fig. 2 is a plan view of a portion of the device shown in Fig. 1.

The strip support is represented at 1, it being of any suitable construction and being preferably a case wherein a roll of paper may be suitably supported and tensioned. Herein it is represented as mounted upon a base 2. Suitably secured to the base is a reservoir 3 having therein or operatively related thereto a moistener 4 of any suitable construction. Herein the moistener is repre sented as a wicking having its ends depending into the tank or reservoir. In the form of the invention herein shown, the moistener is supported by a spring 5 which normally projects the same toward the service path of the strip, but upon the application of spring pressure to the moistener the spring 5 yields and the moistener is moved downtion may be positioned at any desired point with reference to the moistener I. Preferably, however, and as shown, I employ a severing blade 6 mounted in advance of the moistening point. If desired and as here shown the severing blade and the moistener are so related that during the moistening operation, the blade is guarded by the moistener. This, however, is not necessary within the broad scope and purpose of my invention. Referring to that embodimentv of the invention wherein the blade is guarded by the moistener, I have provided suitable means whereby when the moistener is subjected to strip pressure, it is depressed or' moved from its normal position and the blade 6 1s thereupon exposed, so that the strip is severed.

Irrespective of the particular form and relation of the moistener and severing blade, I employ suitable means to retract the strip after the severing operation. The retractor employed for this purpose may be of any suitable construction, but it is so positioned as to engage the strip between the support and the moistener and to draw the strip longitudinally thereof away from the moistener upon strip severance. For this purpose, I have herein provided levers 7 pivoted at 8 upon the reservoir and preferably having strip holding members, herein shown as rolls 9, 10 adjustably spring pressed toward each other. To the lower ends of the levers 7 are connected springs 11, whose opposite ends are adapted to be suitably connected to pins 12 extending from the walls of the reservoir 3. If desired, stops 13 may be employed to limit the swinging movement of said levers.

It will be observed that the retractor. herein comprising the levers 7, operates to draw the strip longitudinally of itself away from the moistener after strip severance. So far as I am aware, I am the first in this art to employ a retractor acting to move the strip in its service path away from the moistener after strip severance. By positioning the severing blade 6 in advance of the moistener,

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the free end of the Strip after severance is 'supported as shownclose to the moistenerand 11'l\ convenient position to be. readily grasped in the next serving operation. Having thus'described one 1llustrativeembodiment of my invention, I desire it to be understood that although specific terms are employed, they are used in a generic and descriptive sense and not for purposes of limitation, the scope of the invention being set forth in the following claims.

Claims: 7 7

1. A strip serving apparatus comprising 'in combination, a strip support, a'moistener in the service path of the strip, a strip severing device in front of the moistening point, and a retractor positioned to engage the strip between the support and the moistener and to draw the strip longitudinally thereof away from the moistener, after the severing action.

'2. A strip serving apparatus comprising in combination, a strip support, a moistener in the service path of the strip, a strip severing device in advance of the moistening point, and a retractor postioned to engage severing of the strip thereby.

4. A strip serving apparatus comprising in combination, a strip support, a moistener in the service path of the strip, a 'strip severing device in front of the moistener and normally shielded from the strip, and a rctractor positioned to engage the strip between the support and the moistener and operating to draw the strip longitudinally thereof away from the moistener upon unshielding of the severing device and the severing of the strip thereby.

5. A strip serving apparatus comprising in combination, a strip support, moistener in the service path of the strip, a strip se ez'ing device in front of the moistening point, and a pivoted retractor positioned to from the moistener; after the severing ;act1on.

engage the strip between the support and the moistener and to draw the strip longitudinally thereof away from the moistener 61 after the severing action.

6. A strip serving apparatus comprising in combination, a strip support, a moistener in the service path of the strip, a strip severing device in front of the moistening point 6: and a retractor having strip holding members and positioned to engage the strip between the support and the moistener and to draw the strip longitudinally thereof away 7. A strip serving apparatus comprising n combinatioma strip support, a moistener 1n the service path of the strip, a strip severing device 'in front of the moistening 7 point, and a retractor positioned to engage the strip between the support and the moistenor and to draw the strip longitudinally thereof away from the-moistener, said retractor being movable in the direction of strip service during the serving operation and movablein the opposite direction upon strip severance.

8. A strip serving apparatus comprising in combination, a strip support, a moistener in the service path of the strip, a strip severing device in front of the moistening point, and a retractor positioned to engage the strip between the support and the moistener and to draw the strip longitudinally thereof away from the moistener, said retractor being movable in the direction of strip service during the serving operation and spring actuated in the opposite direction upon strip severance.

.9. A strip serving apparatus comprising in combination, a strip support, a moistener in the service path of the strip, a strip serving device in front of the moistening point,

said moistener and. severing device being 10 relatively arranged to effect severance of the strip upon the application of strip pressure against the moistener, and a retractor positioned to engage the strip between the support and the moistener and todraw the strip 19 longitudinally thereof away from the moistener after the severing action.

in testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

Witnesses:

Envrno U. Townsnnn, ROBERT Hashim.

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